Civil Liberties

Supreme Court's Right-Wing Clique Guts the Voting Rights Act -- After Five Decades of Protecting Minorities, Suddenly, It's 'Unconstitutional'

By Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet

The ruling means that the Department of Justice will no longer be able to stop many of the most abusive election practices we saw in the most recent election.

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Finally, Some Sanity in Congress About Castrating the NSA's Total Surveillance Powers

By Alex Kane / AlterNet

Bombshell: Government’s 'Insider Threat Program' Obligates Federal Workers to Spy on Their Colleagues

By Nora Eisenberg / AlterNet

Prison Hunger Strikes from Guantánamo Bay to Pelican Bay Show That Our 'Justice' System Is Out of Control

By Colin Dayan / Boston Review

Binational Gay Couples Optimistic, Hopeful About DOMA Ruling

By Anthony Advincula / New America Media

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Civil Liberties

4 Recent Supreme Court Rulings Show Which Way the Wind Is Blowing: Corporations Are Getting Whatever They Want

Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet

U.S. Supreme Court Chips Away at Affirmative Action

Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet

10 Questions for NBC Host Who Shamelessly Suggested Greenwald Be Arrested for NSA Leaks

David Sirota / Salon

Powerful New York Prosecutors Under Scrutiny As Many Convictions of Likely Dirty Cop Are Probed

Joaquin Sapien / ProPublica

Obama's Transformation from National Security Dove to Hawk Is the Norm: Presidents Are Captive to America's Imperial Power

Gary Younge / The Guardian

The FBI’s License to Kill: Agents Have Been Deemed 'Justified' in Every Shooting Since 1993

Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez / Democracy Now!

6 Insidious Ways Surveillance Changes the Way We Think and Act

Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

US Refusal to Release Gitmo Prisoners Is a National Offense for Yemenis

Medea Benjamin / AlterNet

How American Society Unravelled After Greedy Elites Robbed the Country Blind

George Packer / The Guardian

Howard Dean Is Cool with the Government Spying on Us, Just as Long as It's Not a Secret

Steven Hsieh / AlterNet

5 Ways the U.S. Government Has Built 'An Architecture of Oppression'

Tom Hintze / AlterNet

How Giving Spying Power to Giant Corporations Is Dangerous to Your Future

Joshua Holland / AlterNet

Noam Chomsky: American Government and Corporations Are at War With the American People

Fiona Harvey / The Guardian

The Terror Con: How Keeping Americans Terrified Is Making Corporations Big Bucks

Robert Scheer / Truthdig

Right-Wing Immigration Foes Get Burned by Reality

Joshua Holland / AlterNet

What Happens to Special-Education Students in a Landscape of 'School Choice'?

Molly Knefel / AlterNet

An American City Govt. Seeks the Cruel Power to Keep People off the Streets in... Vermont?

William Boardman / Reader Supported News

Minneapolis and Somalia—The Outlaw State of the World's Most Dangerous Place

James Furgusson / Da Capo Press

Big NYT Hacks David Brooks, Tom Friedman, Bill Keller Wish Snowden Had Just Followed Orders

Norman Solomon / AlterNet

Chris Hedges Defends Snowden's Heroism in the Face of a Growing Smear Campaign

Amy Goodman, Chris Hedges, Geoffrey Stone / Democracy Now!

When the Government Asks, Tech Companies Usually Turn Over User Information

Alex Kane / AlterNet

Revealed: The 48 People Stuck in Guantanamo Forever

Alex Kane / AlterNet

How I Forgave My Son’s Murderer

Radha Stern / AlterNet

Israel Stirs the Pot in Syria

Jonathan Cook / CounterPunch

The New Generation of American Patriots Are the Whistlebowers Who Came of Age After 9/11

Gary Younge / The Guardian

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